The other day, Akemi and I happened across a small dessert shop in Vancouver’s Strathcona district. It’s called Crackle Creme and it specializes in creme brûlée – oh, and waffles. Real Belgian waffles with pearl sugar, not those other ones!
The place is a one-man show run by Daniel Wong and, what he lacks in restaurant experience he more than makes up for in passion and sheer enthusiasm. On the afternoon we checked out his place, there were 12 different varieties of creme brûlée available. Since it was our first visit, I decided to go simple – straight vanilla bean creme brûlée.
The brûlée was perfect – neither eggy nor overly sweet with a nice thin caramelized sugar covering.
As if often the case when I can’t decide between two desserts, I get both. And so, in addition to the brûlée, I also ordered a Liege waffle with “adult nutella” (Pssst. The secret ingredient is booze!).
A terrific waffle – which I thought could have been even slightly more so with a dollop of whipped cream or vanilla ice cream. But I’m no waffle purist.
Check it out the next time you’re in town.
Crackle Creme
Opens Wednesdays to Sundays, 11:30 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
245 Union Street (Vancouver, BC)
Quick update on my daughter Katie’s service dog. This is a quote from her facebook:
She is out of surgery and all went well. He said we caught it early enough and she didn’t ruin the “cartilage” between the bones, which is good. I get to pick her up end of the day tomorrow, they want to monitor her through the day and make sure everything is good for recovery. Gus is freaking out a little wondering where his big sister is but other than that everything is good.
(Gus is her pug puppy.)
interesting that you post about creme brûlée, i tried that “creme brûlée” shake at arby’s yesterday. blech! i should’ve known better.
Yum yum :9
Two of my favorite desserts, Yum!
@Lorinda: I’m glad the news is good about the surgery and I hope her recovery goes smoothly.
Never been a fan of creme brûlée…or its relative, phlegm…I mean, flan.
das
Ooo! I may have to check this place out in October!
@Sparrow_hawk:
I’ve got a partial post up. Due to a power outage on Tybee Island this morning, I’m having to use the iPhone WordPress app (instead of my Tablet). Unfortunately, after the post reaches a certain size, the iPhone app starts doing funky things, so I’ll have to wait until later tonight to complete the post.
But you can look at the draft post here:
http://www.corasgarage.com/constantinsanityblog/
It should be the first post up…check back tomorrow for an update.
And as of 11;30am EST, the power is still off so we’re skipping Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room for lunch today. I need to make sure the power and A/C is back on before we leave our dog Lucy in our camper. I might try for Mrs. Wilkes again tomorrow.
I second Akemi’s post.
Das: 😆
Oh great. ANOTHER place I have to go the next time I’m in Vanc! It looks delicious.
Now updated with final comments…thanks Georgia Power and WiFi!
http://www.corasgarage.com/constantinsanityblog/?p=929
@das: I love flan and creme brulee. Is it the whole custard thing you find nasty? I have a wonderful flan recipe from Rick Bayless’ cookbook that I make every now and then. My kids fight over if.
@JeffW: I’m glad you have power again! And thanks for the food reviews. The desserts looked especially good. And the shrimp and grits, too!
@ Sparrowhawk – It’s a bit of everything – I don’t like the texture (esp. flan), I don’t care for the flavor (or lack thereof), and I don’t like the texture (esp. flan).
Also, it’s not chocolate. 🙂
das
Looks delicious, wish we had funstuff here like this,. Happy eating!!
Now those things I would definitely try. Yum. Except, I’d have to have regular nutella. No booze for me.